444 MANUAL OP PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 



"Male adult — Most nearly allied to M. luzoniensis Grant. The gen- 

 eral color of the upper parts less gray, but dark slaty blue as in M. 

 hyperythra. The chin is pure white, the rest of the under parts richer 

 orange-buff; belly white. 



"Female adult. — General color of the upper parts dull slate-gi-ay, and 

 not grayish olive-brown as in the female of M. luzoniensis; lores and 

 feathers round the eye whiter ; breast and under parts as in tlie male of 

 M. luzoniensis." (Whitehead.) 



406. MUSCICAPULA MONTIGENA Mearns. 

 MOUNT APO FLYCATCHER. 



Mtiscicapula montigena Meabns, Pioc. Biol. Soc. Wash. ( 1905 ) , 18, 8 ; 

 McGregok and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 72. 

 E'ri-kri, or sal-yb-se6-bon, Bagobo of Mount Apo. 

 Mindanao ( Mearns ) . 



"Adult male (two specimens) . — General color of upper parts including 

 lores, eye-ring, and sides of head dark slaty blue; white eyebrow-stripe 

 reduced to small supraorbital patches; rump slightly washed with oli- 

 vaceous; upper tail-coverts reddish burnt-umber; tail-feathers burnt- 

 umber; wing-coverts like the back; quills grayish brown, edged with 

 reddish brown externally and with fawn-color internally; under parts, 

 except belly and sides, ochraceous, palest on the chin and under tail- 

 coverts, belly whitish; sides bluish slate; lining and edge of wing 

 ochraceous-buff. Length, 128; alar expanse, 208; wing, 65; tail, 51; 

 bill from anterior border of nostril, 8.1 ; culmen, 10.5 ; tarsus, 18.5 ; 

 middle toe with claw, 15.5. Iris brown; bill black; feet and claws 

 light gray. 



"Adult female {two speam ens). —Similar to the adult male except 

 that the slaty blue of the back and rump are more perceptibly washed 

 with olivaceous, and the lores, eye-ring, and touches on the ear-coverts 

 are ochraceous-buff. Length, 125; alar expanse, 197; wing, 62; tail, 

 47; bill from anterior border of nostril, 7.5; culmen, 10.5; tarsus, 18; 

 middle toe with claw, 16.5. Iris brown; l)ill black; feet and claws 

 grayish flesh-color. 



"Immature female. — Similar to adult females, but paler below, with 

 obscure spotting across the chest and on the sides." {Mearns.) 



This species was discovered by Mearns on Mount Apo at 1,800 meters 

 altitude. 



407. MUSCICAPULA BASILANICA iSliarpe). 

 BASILAN FLYCATCHER. 



Dendrobiastes basilanica Shabpe, Trans. I-inn. Soc. 2d ser. Zool. i 1877), 1, 



332. 

 Muscicapula basilanica Sharpe, Hand-List (1901), 3, 224: McGregob and 



Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 72. 

 Mtiscicapula mindanensis Blasius, Jour, fiir Ornith. (1890), 147. 



Basilan (Steere, Bourns & Worcester, McGregor) ; Mindanao [Platen, Bourns 

 d Worcester, Celestino) . 



